R Tennessee Senate · District 27 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Jack Johnson

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Total votes

23,036

all sessions

Attendance

98%

340 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

22,930

voted in favor

Nay

98

voted against

Absent

340

missed votes

Total cast

23,036

across all sessions

Crossed party

38

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 1492

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or similar incendiary or explosive device. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 3 and Chapter 462 of the Private Acts of 2021.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 520

Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to traffic-control signals. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

Yea

Passed

10–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 355

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education in this state and to provide recommendations on high-quality programming; requires, subject to available funding, the department to implement a pilot program to award grant funds to five LEAs to implement innovative and high-quality preschool programs in the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 1070

Education - As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical education class required by law to elementary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 859

Controlled Substances - As enacted, protects a person's statement regarding the use or possession of marijuana to certain licensed health providers that was made in the course or scope of the person's medical care for the purpose of obtaining medical advice on possible adverse effects of marijuana use in combination with other medications or medical treatment from being admissible as evidence in any criminal trial, hearing, or proceeding in which the person is a defendant; authorizes the person to expressly waive such protection. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 952

Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 28 and Title 65, Chapter 31.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 1069

Education - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence, or an offense that threatened the safety of persons attending or assigned to the student's school, to an alternative school or alternative program if the director or designee determines that assigning the student to the alternative school or program may endanger the safety of the students or staff of the alternative school or program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 12, 2023

HB 1162

Arbitration - As enacted, makes various revisions to the "Uniform Arbitration Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 5; Section 47-18-5519(f)(2); Section 56-7-1206(h)(1); Section 60-1-607(c)(2) and Section 66-34-104(f).

Yea

Passed

29–2

Apr 12, 2023

HB 782

Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provided to elementary and middle school students during the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 17.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 12, 2023

SB 1031

Sexual Offenders - As introduced, clarifies that staying in an overnight shelter that is administered by a municipality is a legitimate reason for a sexual offender to remain within 1,000 feet of a public school, private or parochial school, licensed day care center, other child care facility, public park, playground, recreation center, or public athletic field when children under 18 years of age are present. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Nay

Failed

12–15

Apr 12, 2023